Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before. That left only the withdrawal of Customs Receiver De La Rue as a reason for President Vincent's visit to the U. S. But chances were slight, that he will succeed on his mission. President Vincent's argument that Haiti's finances are in excellent shape is the same one Washington uses to keep Watchdog...
President Vincent, who talks like a French university professor, has another little mission up his sleeve. Haitian trade with the U. S. is ten to one against his country. In his baggage President Vincent brought a great many bottles of Haitian rum. At every interview last week two or three varieties were produced, not for cocktails or punches but to be sipped straight and slowly like old brandy...
...seems to be that a man having once passed through the academic mill with sufficient credit is thereby automatically entitled to become the incumbent of a swivel chair from which to dispense his accumulated lore. Too many section men regard the expounding of text-books as their highest teaching mission and make no display whatever of the originality and imagination that is supposed to be theirs by virtue of their attainments. Yet because of the distribution and concentration requirements there is no escaping them. A few undergraduates, more fortunate than the rest, are aware of the heights which an occasional...
Convert Sweeney soon became the steward of Calvary House, a mission ably run by Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, rector of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church and No. 1 U. S. Group leader. Later he went as butler to Mrs. Limburg, joining with her once a week in "quiet time" (communion with...
Conservative Premier Bennett hastily got the Parliament to extend the eleven banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences...